2014
-
Tens of thousands of pirate gamers enslaved by Bitcoin botnet
‘Watch Dogs’ players targeted for access to their juicy GPUs Tens of thousands of pirate gamers have been enslaved in a BitCoin botnet after downloading a leaked copy…
-
Swiping your card at local greengrocers? Miscreants will swipe YOU in a minute
Keylogging botnet Nemanja is coming to a small biz near you More than a thousand point-of-sale, grocery management and accounting systems worldwide have been compromised by a new…
-
DDoS attacks using SNMP amplification on the rise
Attackers are increasingly abusing devices configured to publicly respond to SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) requests over the Internet to amplify distributed denial-of-service attacks. This amplification technique, which…
-
SNMP DDoS Attacks Spike
No botnet necessary: Yet another flavor of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that doesn’t require infecting PCs is on the rise. Akamai’s Prolexic Security Engineering and Response Team (PLXsert)…
-
DDoS attacks: Criminals get stealthier
There is a lot of media hype surrounding volumetric style DDoS attacks recently where the focus has been on large Gb/sec attacks, sometimes up to 400 Gb/sec. In…
-
‘Anons’ cuffed by Australian Federal Police
Two arrested for attacks on Indonesian and Australian websites The Australian Federal Police (AFP) claim to have arrested two chaps who conducted defacement and denial of service attacks…
-
Australian Labor Party and the Bob Brown Foundation hit by DDoS attack
Inadvertent victims of “politically motivated” hack. A politically motivated DDoS attack on a US-based web hosting service has delivered global repercussions affecting a number of Australian websites including…
-
Dating Website Plenty Of Fish Hit By DDoS Attack
Add Plenty of Fish to the list of technology companies whose websites have come under DDoS attacks from unknown cybercriminals in recent days. The company says that it was the…
-
DOSarrest Rolls Out Cloud Based Layer 7 Load Balancing
DOSarrest has begun offering a Cloud based Layer 7 local and global Load balancing solution to its DDoS protection services customer base. The Load balancing service is a…
-
TypePad Claims It Was Hit By Another DDoS Attack
A number of technology companies, including Meetup, Basecamp, Vimeo, Bit.ly and others, have undergone website-crashing DDoS attacks (distributed denial-of-service) in recent months, but SAY Media-owned blogging platform Typepad, apparently, has the dubious…